Musical Styles

Punk Style

is the clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewellery, and body modifications of the punk counterculture. Punk fashion varies widely, ranging from Vivienne Westwood designs to styles modeled on bands like The Exploited to the dressed-down look of North American hardcore.

Gangsta Style

a hip-hop style characterized by themes and lyrics that typically emphasize the “gangster”, “O.G”, and “Thug-Life” lifestyle. The genre evolved from hardcore rap to a genre in its own right, first created in the mid-1980s by rappers like Ice-T and popularized in the late 1980s by rap groups like N.W.A. After the national attention that Ice-T and N.W.A received in the late 1980s and early 1990s, gangsta rap, originally a highly underground and alternative form of hip hop, soon became hip hop’s most commercially lucrative subgenre.

Emo style

is a rock music genre characterized by an emphasis on emotional expression, sometimes through confessional lyrics. It emerged as a style of post-hardcore from the mid-1980s hardcore punk movement in Washington, D.C., where it was known as emotional hardcore or emocore and pioneered by bands such as Rites of Spring and Embrace. In the early–mid 1990s, emo was adopted and reinvented by alternative rock, indie rock and/or punk rock bands such as Sunny Day Real Estate, Jawbreaker, Weezer, Cap’n Jazz, and Jimmy Eat World, with Weezer breaking into the mainstream during this time